«After days of solidarity and understanding towards the striking transporters, today the prevailing feeling is anger. Because, while the protests continue, the Kiwi isn’t waiting. The fruit falls from the plant, the harvest cannot stop and every day that passes risks turning into an increasingly heavy economic loss for the farms of the Piana» di Gioia Tauro».
This was stated by the entrepreneur of the sector Luigi Scolaro, president of the fruit and vegetable section of Confagricoltura Reggio Calabria, “representing the agricultural entrepreneurs of the Piana”. “The farmers – he continues – had chosen to support the reasons of the transporters, trusting in the guarantees received on the restart of the trucks and the resumption of the activities. But those reassurances, at least up to now, do not seem to have found the concrete response expected from the agricultural world. The situation has become unsustainable for those who work in the fields and have to deal with the times of nature. The kiwi has its own rhythms, it does not know negotiations or trade unions and cannot wait for a dispute to find a solution, the supply chain has to be picked and brought to its destination, and the farmers are the ones who pay the price, as they see the work of an entire season disappearing.” damaged. The question, at this point, is inevitable: who will compensate the farmers for the losses suffered? And above all, who will take responsibility for a situation that risks bringing a fundamental sector for the economy of the Plain to its knees?